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FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE Announcement

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the
availability of FreeBSDÂ 10.1-RELEASE. This is the
second release of the stable/10 branch, which improves
on the stability of FreeBSDÂ 10.0-RELEASE and
introduces some new features.

Some of the highlights:

The new console driver, vt(4), has been added.

Support for FreeBSD/i386 guests has been added to
bhyve(4).

The bhyve(4) hypervisor now supports booting from a zfs(8)
filesystem.

Support for SMP was added to the armv6 kernels and
enabled by default in the configuration files for all
platforms that contain multi-core CPUs.

Initial support for UEFI boot has been added for the
FreeBSD/amd64 architecture.

Support has been added to cache geli(8) passphrases during
system boot.

Support for the UDP-Lite protocol (RFC 3828) has been added
to the IPv4 and IPv6 stacks.

The new filesystem automount facility, autofs(5), has been
added.

The sshd(8) rc.d(8) startup script now generates ED25519
sshd(8) host keys if keys do not already exist when
ssh_keygen_alg() is invoked.

OpenSSH has been updated to version 6.6p1.

The nc(1) utility has been updated to match the version in
OpenBSD 5.5.

Sendmail has been updated to 8.14.9.

The unbound(8) caching resolver and ldns have been updated
to version 1.4.22.

OpenPAM has been updated to Ourouparia (20140912).

OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.0.1j.

The pkg(8) package management utility has been updated to
version 1.3.8.

For a complete list of new features and known problems, please
see the online release notes and errata list, available at:

Availability

FreeBSDÂ 10.1-RELEASE is now available for the amd64,
i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, sparc64, and armv6
architectures.

FreeBSDÂ 10.1-RELEASE can be installed from bootable
ISO images or over the network. Some architectures also support
installing from a USB memory stick. The required files can be
downloaded via FTP as described in the section below. While
some of the smaller FTP mirrors may not carry all architectures,
they will all generally contain the more common ones such as
amd64 and i386.

SHA256 and MD5 hashes for the release ISO and memory stick
images are included at the bottom of this message.

Additional UEFI-capable images are available for the amd64
(x86_64) architecture.

The purpose of the images provided as part of the release are
as follows:

dvd1

This contains everything necessary to install the base FreeBSD
operating system, the documentation, and a small set of
pre-built packages aimed at getting a graphical workstation
up and running. It also supports booting into a "livefs"
based rescue mode. This should be all you need if you can
burn and use DVD-sized media.

disc1

This contains the base FreeBSD operating system. It also
supports booting into a "livefs" based rescue mode. There
are no pre-built packages.

bootonly

This supports booting a machine using the CDROM drive but
does not contain the installation distribution sets for
installing FreeBSD from the CD itself. You would need to
perform a network based install (e.g., from an FTP server)
after booting from the CD.

memstick

This can be written to an USB memory stick (flash drive)
and used to do an install on machines capable of booting off
USB drives. It also supports booting into a "livefs" based
rescue mode. There are no pre-built packages.

As one example of how to use the memstick image, assuming
the USB drive appears as /dev/da0 on your machine something
like this should work:

This can be written to an USB memory stick (flash drive)
and used to boot a machine, but does not contain the
installation distribution sets on the medium itself, similar
to the bootonly image. It also supports booting into
a "livefs" based rescue mode. There are no pre-built
packages.

As one example of how to use the mini-memstick image,
assuming the USB drive appears as /dev/da0 on your machine
something like this should work:

Support

Other Projects Based on FreeBSD

There are many "third party" Projects based on
FreeBSD. The Projects range from re-packaging FreeBSD into a more
"novice friendly" distribution to making FreeBSD
available on Amazon's EC2 infrastructure. For more information
about these Third Party Projects see: